Unchecked structural damages threaten public safety. This guide to non-destructive testing (NDT) methods helps inspectors select the most applicable and cost-effective technique for detecting defects in structures using steel, concrete, fibre-reinforced polymers, and timber.
Explore technology by understanding the fundamental principles of physics. For first-year Engineering and BSc courses, this book uses simple English and illustrations from everyday life to explain core concepts. With simplified derivations, solved problems, exercises, and MCQs.
This book derives fluid-dynamic balance equations from a molecular perspective. It shows how Euler equations are obtained in equilibrium and the Navier-Stokes equations in non-equilibrium, linking their validity to small perturbations of the Maxwell distribution.
This book explores climate-resilient building in India, focusing on durable structures for aggressive environments. It covers the causes of concrete deterioration and offers cost-effective mix designs and improved construction practices to enhance the service life of structures.
This book presents a theory of integrated knowledge creation, essential for addressing sustainability. It develops and tests a novel intellectual process for producing sound knowledge, unearthing the foundation for a new field: the scholarship of sustainability.
This book explores the principles of stereoisomers in a clear, accessible manner. Covering topics like symmetry and chirality with illustrations and cartoons, it helps students prepare for exams with chapter exercises and provided solutions for self-assessment.
Climate Change and Water-Related Challenges in Pakistan
Pakistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change, facing crises in water and food security. This collection by leading academics examines the burden of the problem and presents feasible, affordable solutions to inspire discourse and accelerated action.
This unique monograph explores the in-depth chemistry of allelopathy—the chemical interactions between plants. It covers the development of bioherbicides and the nanoencapsulation of allelochemicals for agriculture, a valuable resource for scientists, students, and industry.
Next Generation Healthcare
This book explores how deep learning AI can solve healthcare’s challenges with fragmented data and security. It covers diverse applications from disease detection to EHR management and telemedicine, offering cutting-edge insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
Dynamic Stereochemistry
Master dynamic stereochemistry. This guide systematically explores substitution, addition, elimination, and pericyclic reactions. Learn with clear examples and test your knowledge using the chapter exercises, which include full solutions.
Explore how deep learning and AI are revolutionising agriculture. This book examines current uses, from crop monitoring to precision farming, and looks ahead to future developments, providing the knowledge necessary to grow the future of food production.
This lucid analysis of quantum mechanics emphasizes the fundamentals using Dirac’s notation. It explains the latest topics, like Quantum Computing, and features a rich collection of solved examples. This comprehensive text is ideal for graduate and research students in physics.
Digital Platformization and Effects on Corporate Branding
This book reflects on digital platforms, their added value for sustainability through corporate branding, and the challenge of assessing performance in the sports, cultural, and creative sectors as platform-based models become embedded in everyday life.
This monograph provides a step-by-step review of semiempirical methods, invaluable tools due to their affordability and accuracy. It tracks their progress from the 1930s to modern tools for modeling compounds, depicting their development as a sequence of breakthroughs.
This book explores the fundamental processes of carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems and their vital role in mitigating climate change. It provides an in-depth analysis of anthropogenic impacts, offering invaluable insights into the science, policy, and practices involved.
This guide explores cache coherency in multicore systems, from key protocols to the design of a scalable fabric for the RISC-V architecture. Leveraging detailed simulations, the book rigorously examines the fabric’s ability to maintain memory consistency across multiple cores.
Trusted Routing Mechanisms
As our business and private lives rely on computing systems, digital security is imperative. This book offers solutions that ensure the integrity and confidentiality of network traffic by protecting data from third parties.
This guide covers the processing and combustion of fuels—biomass, petroleum, coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydrogen, and fuel cells. It addresses recent advances, emission concerns, and how advanced fuels can be optimized for efficiency and compliance with EURO VI emission norms.
Sectoral Structures Theory is a novel, interdisciplinary framework for studying arrangements of circular sectors. This work establishes its foundations in geometric combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory, integrating concepts from algebra, topology, and group theory.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of shape control, vibration analysis, and buckling in piezolaminated composite plates. Using shear deformation theory in finite element methods, it delivers accurate calculations of deformation, frequencies, and buckling modes.